Ghada Akkad, BACP

Ghada Akkad is a BACP-registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience supporting people from varied cultural and life backgrounds. She focuses on helping individuals navigate stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, family and career challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her additional work addresses attachment concerns, avoidant personality traits, commitment and communication problems, feelings of emptiness or isolation, guilt and shame, immigration-related stresses, impulsivity, jealousy, and obsessive or compulsive patterns.

Ghada works from a strengths-based perspective, holding the view that each person is the expert in their own story and carries resources that can be used to overcome current difficulties. She aims to make therapy approachable rather than intimidating, bringing creativity and a sense of genuineness into sessions so clients can both work through difficult material and build lasting skills. Her style balances openness and realism with moments of warmth and lightness when appropriate.

She draws on a range of evidence-informed methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness practices, selecting techniques to suit each individual. Ghada holds BACP accreditation - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates her membership of a recognised professional body in the UK.